About
Black Mountain Institute at UNLV champions writers and storytellers through programs, fellowships and community engagement. We make space for meaningful collaborations and conversations; we understand service as vital. We ask questions about access, the environment, and labor. We find our home in Las Vegas–a place of hospitality in the middle of a desert. Between the manufactured and natural, urban and wide expanse, built and rebuilt, bounty and scarcity, we live within narratives of destruction and preservation. From the brightest spot on the planet, Black Mountain Institute amplifies writing and artistic expression to connect us to each other in the Las Vegas Valley, the Southwest, and beyond.
Black Mountain Institute can be reached at:
4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Box 455085
Las Vegas, Nevada
89154-5085
702-895-5542
blackmountaininstitute@unlv.edu
BMI Founders and Advisors
Carol C. Harter (In Memoriam)
Beverly Rogers
Richard Wiley
BMI Advisory Board Members
Stephen Bates
Zachary Billot
Wendy Chen
Cyndi Conn
Natalie Diaz
Fawn Douglas
Bryan Dziedziak
Robin Greenspun
Jeanne Hamrick
Maria Jerinic-Pravica
Kima Jones
Milo Kostelecky
Andrew Nicholson
Cindy Reid
Vogue Robinson
Christy Sakamoto
Sonja Saltman
Miriam Shearing
Siddharth Srikanth
Lynh Tran
Erica Vital-Lazare
Claytee White
Honorary Members
Henry Louis Gates
Wole Soyinka